tv ABC World News Tonight With David Muir ABC August 28, 2022 5:30pm-6:00pm PDT
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disney is the parent company of abc 7. i am dion lim. tonight, assessing the risk from the trump mar-a-lago documents. was national security compromised? and now top republicans are weighing in on the former president's handling of classified information, as u.s. intelligence officials launch their investigation into the documents that were recovered. we look at the possible fallout. could it lead to criminal prosecution? a senior republican senator tells abc news, the former president should have turned the documents over before the fbi searched his home. developing tonight, ukraine's largest nuclear power plant is hit by shelling. terrified residents line up for anti-radiation medication. what we've learned about the plan for a radiation emergency. our team on the ground near the nuclear plant. the dangerous weather threats. severe storms in the upper midwest. mississippi's governor declares a state of emergency as flooding
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forces evacuations. multiple new threats in the tropics. rob marciano is timing it all out. plus, the climate catastrophe in pakistan. flooding kills more than a thousand people. buildings collapsing, and dangerous rescues by the military. disturbing new police body camera video of a deadly encounter between officers and a man believed to be experiencing mental health issues. did officers do all they could to de-escalate the situation? the buffalo bills release their rookie punter accused of sexually assaulting an underaged girl in a civil suit. that player claims he's innocent. tonight, the alleged victim's father is speaking out exclusively to abc news. the horrifying ambush attack in texas. multiple deaths reported. authorities believe a man set fire to an apartment building to lure tenants outside, and then opened fire. counting down, we're now just hours from launch. nasa hopes this rocket will make a "giant leap" back to the moon. gio benitez from florida tonight. and uvalde strong. the football game that meant
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everything to a community that's been through so much. good evening, everyone. thanks so much for joining us on this sunday. i'm linsey davis. we begin tonight with the search of mar-a-lago and the increasing concerns over potential damage to national security. top intelligence officials are now assessing the risk and conducting a classification review of the boxes of material seized from former president trump's home. when agents executed a search warrant at mar-a-lago earlier this month, they took 11 sets of classified documents. we now know from the heavily redacted affidavit released this week that the fbi suspected as early as this spring that trump and his team still had classified documents in his possession. rmsident trump insists he did nothing wrong. today several republicans said they want to see more information. abc's white house correspondent maryalice parks leads us off tonight from the department of
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justice. >> reporter: tonight, as top intelligence officials work to assess any risk to national security, many republicans demanding more answers and transparency from the department of justice, critical that the affidavit used to justify a search warrant for former president trump's mar-a-lago estate was released but only with heavy redactions. >> what is the subject matter? what's the dates? what's the times? what are we talking about here? >> it's hard to believe that the justice department and the fbi would take steps unless they had something pretty serious they were investigating. we just don't know the facts yet. >> reporter: others, though, clearly feel they've seen enough. >> the hypocrisy of folks in my party that spent years canting "lock her up" about hilary clinton because of some deleted emails or wiping a server are now out there defending a man who very clearly did not take the national security of the united states to heart. >> reporter: senator roy blunt pressed on the basics. >> do you believe it was right for the president to take those documents to mar-a-lago? >> he should have turned the documents over and apparently had turned a number of documents
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over. he should have turned over all of them. i imagine he knows that very well now. >> reporter: democrats standing by the department of justice. >> it's powerfully important that we give the justice department the space to follow the evidence wherever it leads without fear or favor. >> reporter: this after that news that the director of national intelligence will now lead an assessment of any potential risks to national security. >> what they're going to be trying to determine is who had access to this material, and if this were to get into the wrong hands, what would be our specific threat to national security? >> reporter: the affidavit detailing how, back in january, after months of asking the trump team, the national archives received more than 700 pages of government records from mar-a-lago, including at least 184 classified documents, 67 labeled confidential, 92 marked secret, and 25 labeled top secret. the doj going back to the former president several times after that asking for any remaining
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material, before finally seeking and being granted that search warrant, which produced 20 more boxes. there is also probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found at the premises. >> let's get right to maryalice parks, and, maryalice, as you know, there is a big debate among experts about whether or not this will lead to an indictment. >> reporter: yeah, that's the big question right now, linsey. many experts say that it could lead to an indictment, but there's still so much we don't know from investigators, and others noting that, of course, everything is different and more sensitive when you're dealing with a former president, and trump himself continues to say that he did nothing wrong. linsey. >> maryalice, our thanks to you. we turn now to the russian invasion of ukraine and the growing fears of a nuclear disaster after europe's largest nuclear plant was hit by shelling. the finger-pointing and frustrations are intensifying as each side blames the other for the strikes. abc's britt clennett reports from ukraine tonight. >> reporter: tonight, new reports of shelling hitting the nuclear power plant in zaporizhzhya sparking renewed
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fears of a radiation emergency. ukraine telling the u.n.'s nuclear watchdog that over the past three days, shelling hit two so-called "special buildings" located dangerously close to the plant's reactors. video posted online showing the aftermath of strikes. both sides are blaming each other for the attack. residents nearby terrified. all these people have come from a 50-mile radius just to get their hands on iodine anti-radiation medication in case things go bad. doctors here telling me there's high demand for the pills in this area. >> we received a few thousand of those pills, and within a week we had almost none. >> so what kind of announcement will there be, and how will you communicate with people? >> there will be a special siren different from our air raid sirens. they will receive proper information on what to do, when to do, evacuation procedures, iodine pills, everything. >> reporter: and we met this
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woman waiting in line for those pills. are you worried? "i'm worried and scared," she said, adding she has a child and her husband is away fighting in the war. the fighting raging on. the state department now confirming another u.s. citizen has been killed while fighting for the ukrainians. that american has not been identified. [ speaking non-english ] and tonight president zelenskyy suggesting ukraine is about to step up its counteroffensive saying, the russians will feel its consequences. this evacuation center in zaporizhzhia is about 35 miles from that plant, and, linsey, we are speaking to so many people who are physically and emotionally drained, exhausted, traumatized and who desperately needed to escape because of the intense fighting there and, of course, the nuclear threat. it's now looking like u.n. ispectors may visit the plant in a matter of days, but for the evacuees here, that inspection can't come soon enough. linsey. >> a lot of anxiety, britt, thank you.
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back in this country, millions in the midwest are on alert tonight for a dangerous weather threat. the twin cities are in the storm zone for a second day in a row. a tornado brought down trees causing extensive damage, and evacuations remain in place as the pearl river crests in jackson, mississippi. let's get straight to abc's senior meteorologist rob marciano. rob, tell us about the activity that you're also monitoring in the tropics. >> reporter: well, the tropics are ramping up, we're getting into primetime hurricane season, but we have three areas of severe storms we want to get through first, first across one heading through st. louis, another strong line heading through milwaukee and eventually chicago, a watch box up there and another in northern minnesota. that will get through the twin cities again, another round of potentially damaging storms tonight, and that gets into milwaukee and chicago tomorrow, the threat there tomorrow afternoon from springfield to chicago, damaging winds and large hail tomorrow. all right. four disturbances in the atlantic basin, that one in the caribbean will get into the gulf, we're watching that but the red blob in the center of
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the screen, it has a 70% chance of becoming our next cyclone. it's heading in our direction. >> rob, our thanks to you. now to the growing humanitarian crisis in pakistan. more than a thousand people are dead, and hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed. these satellite images show the scale of the devastation, which has displaced more than 300,000. overall 33 million have been impacted. used a li to ueneern trapped in the scientists say climate change is here's abc'ss r role. >> reporter: tonight, catastrophic flash flooding wreaking havoc in pakistan. destructive floodwaters sweeping through villages tearing through homes in what the country's climate change minister is calling a climate-induced humanitarian disaster of epic proportions. the monsoon season starting about a month early this year unleashing relentless rounds of rain since june. it's even causing this luxury
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hotel to collapse. officials saying over 1,000 people have been killed since the start of the rains, more than 33 million affected, with tens of thousands forced to evacuate, some having to wade through neck-deep water. the government deploying soldiers to help with search and rescue operations, army helicopters airlifting people to safety, but in some parts it's still not enough. "there's nobody to help, nobody to even ask about us." and officials expect the flooding to continue. pakistan's climate change minister saying up to a third of the country could be underwater by the time this is over. linsey. >> ines, thank you. tonight we're learning more about a horrifying ambush attack in houston overnight. police say the man who had been evicted from an apartment building set that building on fire to lure tenants outside. they say he then shot five of those tenants killing three of them as the building became engulfed in flames. firefighters had to take cover as the man kept firing. responding police officers then shot the alleged gunman killing him.
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and in salt lake city authorities are now investigating a police encounter that ended with a man's death. police body camera video shows officers trying to restrain a man who appeared to be experiencing a mental health episode. after a struggle the man died in custody. here's abc's mona kosar abdi, and a warning, you may find some of the images disturbing. >> reporter: tonight, newly released body camera videos shows the moments before an unarmed utah man died after a police encounter. according to salt lake city police, officers were responding to a 911 call about a man later identified as 35-year-old nykon brandon, allegedly trying to steal a beer from a local brewery. >> he's in his underwear, and he's just running around, definitely a danger to himself or maybe the traffic. >> reporter: the 911 caller then suggesting the dispatcher send mental health resources. >> definitely mental health issues going on. >> reporter: instead, this happened. brandon, police say, grabbing for the first arriving officer's gun, and as more arrive, reaching again for a gun.
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>> put your hands behind your back. do it now. >> now! >> reporter: brandon now only making sounds. >> you want to sit up? we can sit you up if you stop. >> you got to be cooperative, though, man. we want to help you. >> reporter: and then going silent. >> our officers noticed that the man had become unresponsive, so they immediately started providing medical aid. >> reporter: taken to the hospital, brandon died there, police say. a statement from the chief of police says in part, quote, we are committed to carefully reviewing the investigative findings in this case. salt lake city police operating under a mayor's order to employ de-escalation techniques before using force. and we've also learned that earlier that day brandon had an encounter with police from a different jurisdiction. officers there cited him for public intoxication, took him to a detox facility, but then he left. linsey.
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>> mona, thank you. the buffalo bills taking action releasing punter matt araiza after allegations that he and other men raped a 17-year-old at a party last year. araiza denies those allegations, and tonight the father of the alleged victim is speaking out. here's abc's alex presha. >> reporter: the buffalo bills releasing standout punter matt araiza from the team. >> our culture here is -- is more important to us than winning football games. >> reporter: araiza facing psexual abuse allegations from when he was a student at san diego state university. two other former sdsu teammates zavier leonard and nowlin ewaliko also implicated. a civil suit accusing all three of rape, gender violence and false imprisonment at a halloween house party last fall. the then 17-year-old accuser says she was "observably intoxicated," led into a bedroom by araiza where "at least three other men" including defendants leonard and ewaliko already were. the woman telling kpbs -- >> they threw me down onto the
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bed, face down, and they took turns assaulting me. >> reporter: araiza's attorney telling the san diego station kfmb -- >> he is 100% adamant that he never forcibly raped this young lady or forcibly had sex with her in any way or had sexual relations with her while intoxicated, whether it be alcohol or drugs. >> reporter: the attorney alleging the plaintiff said at the time she was 18 years old and in college. araiza's attorney telling abc news, he's sure his client is very upset and disappointed that his career with the bills ended because of false allegations. leonard's attorney writing, "the criminal investigation on this matter is ongoing and no conclusion should be jumped to." ewaliko's attorney says his client denies the allegations. the father of the teen speaking exclusively to abc news. his attorney asking that we blur his face to protect his daughter's identity. >> i absolutely believe that he did what my daughter is suggesting he did. and she'll carry this with her for the rest of her life. >> reporter: linsey, the bills say they were unaware of the allegations when they drafted
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araiza. now, police say they've cncluded their criminal investigation. those findings now in the hands of the county district attorney for review. linsey. >> alex, thank you. now, to the historic countdown that's about to get under way in florida for america's return to the moon. if all goes according to plan, nasa's artemis rocket will blast off tomorrow morning. abc's transportation correspondent gio benitez reports from the kennedy space center. >> reporter: tonight, we're just hours away from the beginning of a new space race we haven't seen in 50 years. artemis 1 ready for liftoff for the first test flight to the moon with the goal of someday staying there. >> all of this is in preparation to build and develop the technology to go to mars in the late 2030s, 2040. >> reporter: the plan is for the most powerful rocket in the world, the sls, to carry the orion capsule into orbit. it'll go around the world once then fire off to the moon. >> hey, gio, i'm going to take you inside the orion capsule. >> reporter: earlier this year
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nasa astronaut, victor glover, giving us an exclusive look inside that capsule. >> the crew will be restrained here for launch and entry. >> reporter: after reaching the moon with no humans on board this time, it'll loop around the moon in a cosmic slingshot of sorts, and come back to earth. >> it's coming in 5,000 degrees. >> reporter: a critical test to see if it will be safe for humans in 2024. so, linsey, this rocket has to lift off before that two-hour window closes tomorrow morning by 10:33 a.m. eastern. if it doesn't, they'll have to delay this launch until at least friday. linsey? >> lots of excitement about this launch, gio, thank you. and be sure to tune in to live coverage of the launch right here on abc. and there's still much more ahead on "world news tonight" this sunday including the illness that forced beta o'rourke off the campaign trail and into a hospital. and up next, the urgent manhunt for a suspect in
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after 21 lives were cut short, the uvalde high school football team scored 21 points in an emotional win in its first game of the season. it's part of our continuing coverage, uvalde 365. with broken hearts but boundless resolve, the uvalde high school coyotes took to the football field friday night charging onto the gridiron sporting their flag, uvalde strong. ♪ and the rocket's red glare ♪ >> reporter: with hands to their hearts, the 54 players paused for the national anthem. >> let's go, boys. >> reporter: lots of maroon in the stands in honor of uvalde's team. even the opposing football team sported special decals. once on the field the coyotes did not disappoint giving uvalde residents something to cheer for again. >> go, baby. yeah! >> reporter: the final score,
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carrizo wildcats, 13, uvalde coyotes, 21, a poignant reminder of the 21 lives lost three months ago when a shooting at robb elementary. the team's coach, wade miller, in the huddle postgame with this heartfelt message. >> i don't know where this stands in the games that i've won as far as importance because i've won some big playoff games and things like that, but right now with the weight of the world on our shoulders, and what you came out and did tonight, i love you like you're my own children. you understand that? could not be more proud of you. >> reporter: a much-needed win in a town still grieving so much loss. >> one, two, three. family. >> go! >> uvalde strong, something to celebrate. thanks so much for watching. "gma" first thing in the morning. david muir right back here tomorrow night. i'm linsey davis in new york. have a great evening and a good night.
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>> identity stabbing -- a deadly stabbing in san francisco. then taking apart a plane piece by piece after a skilled emergency landing on a beach. and celebrating pride in silicon valley. love and duty on full display today in the bay area's biggest city. abc 7 news at 6:00 starts right now. >> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. >> identity stabbing at a san francisco station. service is impacted as the investigation just begins. thank you for joining us. i am dion lim. that stabbing happened at the 24 admission station. j.r. stone is live for us at the mission police station with new
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information. >> police in this area are actively searching for the killer in this case. they have not released a suspect description. nor a surveillance video in this case. here is what we do know. according to barth, they have checked that surveillance video that they say shows adult males arguing near the street elevator entrance 24 admission just before 1:40 this afternoon. and then one individual stabs the other person. we know that was a male, also a male victim. they walked down the stairs, into the station and eventually collapsed on the platform. bart personnel tried to help with the man was pronounced dead a short time later. keep in mind, this is the second time in days we have seen a violent situation at the bart station. a man was shot at an open station on friday. we havels
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